英语专业本科毕业论文范文：《呼啸山庄》与《基督山伯爵》中(4)

of vengeance can really go. Everyone feels the need for revenge but many times

people go beyond the limit. Only the great people can give up hopes of vengeance and

pardon their enemy. Monte Cristo’s ultimate victory is not the defeat of his enemies

but the spiritual reassessment which enable him to rejoin the human race and get new

life in hope.

Revenge is seen in many different lights and executed in many different ways,

but in the end the result is always worse than before. Revenge drives people to do the

unthinkable things, even to go so far as to hurt the ones they love to get back at

another. Being usually brought about by selfishness and honor, revenge at its greatest

is started because of love. In the case of Heathcliff, his love for Catherine drives him

insane for revenge when she does not return the feeling.

The only difference between the processes of Heathcliff's revenge and Monte

Cristo’s revenge is that Heathcliff does it by himself but Monte Cristos changes his

own identity to get revenge on enemies. And Heathcliff's revenge is swift and brutal,

but Monte Cristo's is just and righteous. In comparison the last results of both

processes are also different, Heathcliff dies but Edmond leaves.

From the two stories one can get different meanings of the revenge. This is a

good lesson for each of the characters who are seeking to revenge on other characters.

The lesson is: revenge may sound sweet, but be careful because it can blind you.

：《呼啸山庄》与《基督山伯爵》中复仇的对比

Notes

① the Earnshaw family who own a place called Wuthering Heights. Wuthering

Heights is located on the moors.

②The Château d'If was surrounded by water and was known as a place of no return.

③艾米莉·勃朗特. 呼啸山庄[M]．北京: 外语教学与研究出版社, 1996．P390．

④艾米莉·勃朗特. 呼啸山庄[M]．北京: 外语教学与研究出版社, 1996．P202．